PLATINUM couple Harold and Madeline Barnard are still loved up - an epic 70 years on from their wedding day.

Harold and Madeline first met as youngsters in the late 1920s when Madeline moved with her family to Leven Road in Norton.

The pair went to school together and gathered a group of mutual friends - and it seems they’ve been inseparable ever since.

Harold, now 94, and 92-year-old Madeline, tied the knot at Norton Methodist Church on February 24, 1940.

As it was wartime, Madeline wore a stunning blue gown rather than the traditional white.

Harold was exempt from war because of his job at ICI, though he was involved in ARP and fire watching, but this meant the couple could enjoy married life and begin a family of their own.

Daughter Joyce, now 69, was born in 1941 and the family lived at Pine Street, Norton, until about four years later when their home was caught up in a bomb blast.

They then moved to Grove Terrace - where Harold and Madeline still live today.

They went on to have two sons, 64-year-old Robert and Tom, 62, and they are now grandparents to seven and great-grandparents to 15.

The happy couple - who still go everywhere hand-in-hand - will be celebrating their years together on Saturday with their whole family at the George Hotel, and are looking forward to meeting new baby great-grandaughter Sally Madeline, who lives in Denmark, for the first time.